get filename from long path

i have this string

myfilename = "C:\Work\nieuwsbrief\brief1\agradicat.jpg"

then i want to get the filename only out of there and no path.
i tried splitting on '\' but that doesn't work, then i searched google and found the following script

id = myfilename[max(string.rfind(filename, '/'),string.rfind(filename, '\'),string.rfind(filename, ':'),)+1:]

this has errors and since i don't know how rfind works maybe someone here can help me?

From the built-in help:

eeh, sorry doesn't work for me

I'm using Zope and the example you gave is for python stand alone i think.

if is use your code i get global name basename is not defined
also i have to enter a path manually and it should be passed to the function from the script

It's not an example, it's a builtin function. It should definitely work. You might need to import the os module though.

Hi ijsman, this sould work fine.. (the following is an interactive Python session and shows the steps taken)

>>> import os
>>> os.path.basename('c:/windows/desktop/python.py')
'python.py'
>>>

What percilvall gave you was Python's help() function output for os.path.basename it wasnt actually ment to work.

Have fun,
Mark.

in Zope i can't use python the way you do,

can't i use the rfind or split function? that would be much more usefull

Sorry, I havnt done too much with Zope yet, it's something i've been meaning to get into but.. anyway if Zope is using Python 2.2+ you can do this..

>>> p = '/home/username/python.py'
>>> p.split('/')[-1]
'python.py'

-1 being the last entry in a list.. if you don't have Python 2.2+ you'll need to use the string module instead of the bult-in's

>>> import string
>>> p = '/home/username/python.py'
>>> string.split(p, '/')[-1]
'python.py'

One of these is bound to work..

Note: If your on windows you may need to change the split char' to '\\'. Also remember that the interactive session's (above) only show the step by step. >>> is the interpriters interactive prompt.. just incase you are copying and pasting. if you remove the >>> the examples above should work perfectly..

Hope this helps ,

have fun,
Mark.

The problem is that i'm running under windows and that this script:

p.split('\')

doesn't work

whereas

p.split('/')

does work but is of no use to me.

the backslash split gives me a python error: 'invalid token'


so basically all i want to know is how to SPLIT a string with \ as the split delimiter.

Surely this is possible?

You need to escape your backslash so it becomes '\\\'. When you use a backslash within a string you need to remember that it's a special char' used to escape other special chars i.e "I read that Zope is \"Python Powered\"" is the same as I read that Zope is "Python powered"

>>> import string
>>> p = "c:\\windows\\desktop\\python"
>>> string.split(p, "\\")
['c:', 'windows', 'desktop', 'python']

Mark.

thanx! i tried the escaping b4 but then it didn't work. now it does :P